Tilting ammunition-wagon.



No- 808,855. PATENTED JAN. 2, I906. W. MAYER.

TILTING AMMUNITION WAGON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8. 1905.

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No. 808,855. PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906. W. MAYER. TILTING AMMUNITION WAGON.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 8, 1905.

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ENTTED STATES PATENT onricn W'ILHELM MAYER, OF ESSEN-ON-THE-RUHR-RUTTENSCHEID, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO FRIED. KRUPP AKTIENGESELLSOHAFT, OF ESSEN-ON- THE-RUHR, GERMANY.

TILTING AMMUNITION-WAGON Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application filed May 8, 1905- Serial No. 259,481.

1'0 ctZZ whont it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM MAYER, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Essen on the Ruhr Ruttenscheid, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tilting Ammunition- VVagons, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to tilting ammunition-wagons; and it consists in the peculiar arrangement of a seat for the crew on the wagon-box.

One embodiment of the invention is illus trated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 1s a side view of the ammunitionwagon in the traveling position. Fig. 2 is a corresponding top view. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the ammunition-wagon in the tilting position, and Fig. 4 is a corresponding side view.

A is the box for the ammunition, having the wheel-axle R rigidly secured to its sides. The draw-beams B are pivoted to the box and are at their front end provided with an eye I). To the meeting front ends of the beams B is rigidly secured a brace O, which is connected with the box through the medium of a key-bolt D when the wagon is in the traveling position, Figs. 1 and 2. A footrest or foot-plate E for the serving crew is secured to the box.

F is a foot through the medium of which the box rests on the ground when the wagon is in the tilting or unloading position, Figs. 3 and 4.

The part of the box which is uppermost when the wagon is in the traveling position, Figs. 1 and 2, is closed by means of a door having its leaves G connected with the Wagon-box through the medium of hinges J No invention per se is claimed for the arrangement of the parts as above described, as the same is known to be old.

On the front end of the box is arranged a seat for the serving crew. The arm-rests H of the seat consist of endless side frames, the rear sides of which are connected to each other at the top by means of aback-rest K and at the bottom by means of an angle-iron M. The angle-iron M, with the lower part it of the arm-rests H, forms a frame in which is secured a plate N, preferably made from sheet-shell. The plate N is covered with a bolster (not shown in the drawings) and forms the seat proper. Each of the arm rests H carries an eye 7L2, Figs. 1 and 4, in which is seated a turn-bolt (1/, Figs. 1 and 4, which rests in a bearing a Fig. 2, secured on the box. When the seat is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, one of the arms of the angle-iron M rests on the door-leaves G and the seat may be swung around the axis of the bolt a into the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4. On the door-leaves G and in the proximity of the hinged sides thereof are arranged turn-keys P, provided with a cam p, Figs. 1 and 4, which when the parts occupy the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 overlap the arm of the angle-iron H that rests on the door leaves. The turn-keys are held in such position through the medium of springs Q, secured on the angle-iron M.

In the traveling position of the ammunition-wagon the parts occupy the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the seat for the serving crew rests on the door-leaves G of the box and is held in position through the medium of the keys P. The seat and the keys P keep the door of the box closed, and no special closing means need therefore be provided. When it is desired to bring the wagon into the tilting or unloading position, the wagon is uncoupled, the keyebolt D is removed, and the box is tilted rearwardly until the foot F rests on the ground. The drawbeams B and the brace O turn simultane ously downwardly to cause the eye I) to rest on the ground. The key P is thereupon sw ung ninety degrees downwardly and the seat is swung into the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in which the back-rest K lies against the edge of the foot-plate E. Finally the doors of the box are opened. In this position the plate-N of the seat enlarges the space protected by the bottom wall (now the front wall) and the front wall (now the top wall) against frontal fire, so that the heads of the serving crew occupying the space behind the ammunition-wagon are effectively protected against the fire. If the seat be swung rearwardly from the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 so as to rest on the door-leaves G, the plate N will protect the serving crew against steep-falling projectiles.

If the seat-cushion is considered sufficient protection, no plate N is made use of. The

cushion must in such event be secured in the frame formed by the angle-iron M and the part 72, of the arm-rest H, for instance, by means of straps.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. In an ammunition-wagon, the combination with the tilting box movable to a vertical position, and having hinged doors, of a seat swingingly mounted on the front end of the box and adapted to rest on the upper ends of the doors to protect the serving crew against steep-falling projectiles.

2. In an ammunition-wagon, the combination with the box having a door, of a seat swingingly mounted on the front end of the box and adapted to rest upon the door, and means for securing the door and the seat to one another.

3. In an ammunitiomwagon, the combination with the tilting box movable to a vertical position, of a seat normally resting upon the box and swingingly mounted on the front end of the same to be thrown upwardly when the box is in a vertical position to enlarge the protected space behind the wagon.

4. In an ammunition-wagon, the combination of a tilting box having a door, of a seat normally resting on said door to close the same and capable of being swung relatively to the box to permit of the door being opened.

The foregoing specification signed at Diisseldorf this 20th day of April, 1905.

WILLIAM EssENwEIN, PETER LIEBER. 

